Migrant workers

Migrant workers

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Since 2005, the Commission has addressed the plight of live-in caregivers and migrant farm workers in Québec.The Commission also works, since 2008, with the Comité interministériel permanent sur la protection des travailleurs étrangers temporaires peu specialisés, to defend and protect their rights.

2012 The Commission concludes that live-in caregivers, migrant farm workers and other low-skilled temporary foreign workers are victims of systemic discrimination based on ethnic or national origin, race, social condition, language and, in the case of live-in caregivers, sex.

2011 The Commission produced a video for Spanish-speaking migrant workers hired for a temporary period to work on Québec farms. The video, "Trabajar en Quebec" (Working in Québec), was produced in partnership with the Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CSST) and the Commission des normes du travail (CNT). It informs workers that they have the same rights and responsibilities as any other worker in Québec.

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Each year, Québec accepts several thousand low-skilled migrant workers from Guatemala, Mexico and the Caribbean, mainly hired to work in the agricultural sector. In addition, many live-in caregivers, mostly from the Philippines, are hired by Québec families to work as child care or domestic workers.